# meti
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈmɛ.ti]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈmə.ti]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈme.ti]

### Verb

meti
* inflection of metre:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Italian mettere, ultimately from Latin mittō. Compare French mettre, Portuguese and Spanish meter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmeti]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eti
* Hyphenation: me‧ti

### Verb

meti (present metas, past metis, future metos, conditional metus, volitive metu)
* to put, place
    Metu ambaŭ manojn sur la stirradon! ― Put both hands on the steering wheel!

#### Derived terms

* almeti (“to put on or near; apply; enclose”)
* antaŭmeti (“to put before (someone), present”)
* demeti (“to take off”)
* enmeti (“to put in; insert”)
* formeti (“to put away”)
* kunmeti (“to put together”)
* metiĝi (“to put oneself (somewhere)”)
* meto (“placement”)

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin mittere.

### Verb

meti
* (transitive) to put, place, lay, set

#### Conjugation

This is a regular -i verb.

#### Related terms

* cometi

#### See also

* poni

## Galician
### Verb

meti
* (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

## Icelandic
### Noun

meti
* indefinite dative singular of met

## Istriot
### Etymology

From Latin mittere.

### Verb

meti
* to place; to put
** 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 128:Ch’in tu’l su’ fassulito el me metasse.That into his handkerchief he would put me.

## Kambera
### Verb

meti
* (intransitive) to die

#### Derived terms

* pameti (“to kill”)

## Kituba
### Noun

meti
* saliva

## Ladino
### Verb

meti
* first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈme.tiː/, [ˈmɛt̪iː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈme.ti/, [ˈmɛːt̪i]

### Verb

metī
* present passive infinitive of metō

## Latvian
### Verb

meti
* second-person singular past indicative of mest

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /meˈt͡ʃi/
* (Portugal) IPA: /mɨˈti/
* Hyphenation: me‧ti

### Verb

meti
* first-person singular preterite indicative of meter

## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

meti (Cyrillic spelling мети)
* second-person singular imperative of mesti

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *męti, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *minˀtei.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mèːti/

### Verb

mẹ́ti impf
* to rub

#### Derived terms

* omẹ́ti
* pomẹ́ti
* zmẹ́ti

### Further reading

* “meti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English meat.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈme.ti/

### Noun

meti
* meat, flesh
* animal
** 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore‎, New York: Columbia University Press, page 424:Bɔfru dɛ krei̯, Dia dɛ krei̯, Tamanwa 'ɛ krei̯. Nō mō ala den meti 'ɛ gowe wą' wą'. Nō mō Hagu drapɛ, 'ɛ bari, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / Mi yɛre suma dɛdɛ, / Ma karaki dɛ bro.’[Bofru e krei, Dia e krei, Tamanwa e krei. Nomo ala den meti e gwe wanwan. Nomo Agu drape e bari, 'Bia, bia, bia / Mi yere suma dede / Ma karaki e bro.']Buffalo was crying, Deer was crying, Anteater was crying. No sooner did all the animals go away one by one, than Hog called out, ‘Bia, bia, bia, / I hear a person died, / But his backside breathes.’
* (obsolete) concubine

#### Derived terms

* agumeti (“pork”)
* ameti (“ham”)
* diameti (“venison”)
* fowrumeti (“chicken meat”)
* kawmeti (“beef”)

#### Descendants

* Aukan: meti

### References

* Wilner, John, editor (2003-2007), “meti”, in Languages of Suriname, 5th edition, SIL International, Sranan-English Dictionary